Bonnie Oda Homsey
Bonnie Oda Homsey is the founding Director of Los Angeles Dance Foundation (LADF), the nonprofit charitable corporation established in 1978 under which she and Janet Eilber co-founded the award-winning American Repertory Dance Company (ARDC). For ten years, she produced ARDC’s…
Betty Empey
Betty Mitchell Empey Artist and Pioneer for Dance (1925-2009) Betty was born in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of N. Lorenzo and Martha Mitchell. Not until Betty was six (1931) did her family move to Salt Lake City where her…
Sarah Elgart
This biographical information was extracted from the June 8, 2013 L.A. Dance Summit Program presented at the JACCC and Japan American Theatre. Sarah Elgart has created award-winning work for dance, theater, film, circus, site-specific and alternative venues. Elgart has choreographed for…
Alfred Desio
This biographical information was written by Mr. Desio’s wife and associate, Loise Reichlin, for the 2007 March/April issue of the Dancezine, a bi-monthly publication of the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles. Alfred Desio, the Electronic Tap Dancer, passed…
Linda Chiavaroli
Linda Chiavaroli began as a theater and dance critic in New York for Gannett Co., Inc. In 1974 she became the marketing director for Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. After 7 years working for the Orchestra, Linda founded United Arts, a professional…
Christine Bolingbroke
Christine Bolingbroke earned a BA in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a graduate of the DeVos Institute for Arts Management Fellowship program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC….
Michael Alexander
Michael Alexander is the Executive Director of Grand Performances and, at this writing, serving his third term as the State Assembly’s appointee to the California Arts Council where he served two terms as Chair. He began his professional dance career…
Gary K. Bates
Gary Bates has been a part of the Los Angeles dance community since 1960 when he joined the Eugene Loring Dance Players. As a scholarship student at the American School of Dance in Hollywood he studied with some of the…
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